There are low cost amplifiers that produce incredibly large 3-dimensional sound stage. A Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum amplifier for example can deliver an exceptionally large holographic sound stage- provided your speakers are set up correctly for your seating position and are well designed for coherence and wide dispersion. Expensive amplifiers with higher power output can sound bigger because of the additional power. |
You are welcome to come by and judge for yourself. I am in Orange County, CA. While a Youtube video can’t convey the soundstage and imaging (much is lost in the recording process and it depends on your own playback system), you can hear the clarity and detail. The speakers were designed and tweaked in the room for the room over years of listening and there is no eq or room correction, either electronic or physical being used. |
From Nelson Pass: "...there is a tendency to interpret negative phase 2nd [harmonic] as giving a deeper soundstage and improved localization [of images] than otherwise. Positive phase seems to put the instruments and vocals closer and a little more in-your-face with enhanced detail."https://www.stereophile.com/content/gramophone-dreams-26-nelson-pass-harmonic-distortion Second harmonic distortion is something he adds to his amps, which are expensive, so there you are. Tubes also have it, but "naturally". |
